The effectiveness of anti-corruption measures in the public procurement system: comparative analysis of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Granter

University of ZagrebThe Faculty of Political Science

Lower level organizational units

Department of Public Policy, Managenment and Development

Place

Zagreb

State

Croatia

Scientific field, discipline, subdiscipline

SOCIAL SCIENCESPolitical SciencePublic Policies/Public Management

Study programme type

university

Study level

graduate

Study programme

Political Science

Academic title abbreviation

mag. polit.

Genre

master's thesis

Language

Croatian

Defense date

2016-07-04

Parallel abstract (English)

In this paper the focus is on public procurement system and on comparison of anticorruption policy effectivness in this sector on example of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the first part of paper is described corruption in general, public procurement, regulation and legislation in this field on the European Union level. It is explained how this sector is connected with corruption. In the second part we focus on Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, legislation policy, advantages and disadvantages of every state regarding public procurement system and the conclusion is that Croatia had accepted faster all the necessary measures for increasing transparency and decreasing corruption. At the end, both states have big opportunities for progress if they will insist on big social changes and on raising awareness of corruption in a way that corruption will be punished.